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[[WMG: Zidler is Satine's father.]]
Red. Hair.
* Don't forger all the sweet nicknames that he calls her with.
* Not to mention "I dont need you anymore! ALL MY LIFE youve made me believe I was only worth what someone would pay for me!" And his reaction to finding out she was dying before remembering as creatures of the underworld, they cannot love...
** This troper believed this to be canon for a long time.
[[WMG: Chocolat loves Satine as well.]]
He's always there to step out of the shadows and save her when she needs it. Almost as if he were, say, stalking her...
** Or alternately, he's basically there to spot her in case she injures herself during a performance, but over time found himself falling for her. Also, Satine's costume-changer kid with the raccoon eye makeup totally has a thing for her too.
[[WMG: Christian is dying of tuberculosis.]]
Think about it. It's well-established that Satine has tuberculosis when we first see her, and the disease can be spread through infected saliva. Keeping in mind how much... contact she and Christian had, there's a good chance that he got the disease as well. Christian realizes this, and writes their story so that his memories of her will live on after he has died too.
[[WMG: Aside from the Can-Can scene and Hindi Sad diamonds scene, all of the trippy musical numbers are in the heads of Christian and his friends.]]
They halucinated a green fairy when they had a shot of absinthe each. This also explains the frantic editing at the start of the film, they were all on absinth but stopped once the situation with the Duke became serious. ''Elephant Love Melody?'' Christian trying to make the scene where he and Satine fall in love more romantic.''
* This is almost but not quite confirmed by WordOfGod: all the musical numbers were meant to be viewed as events and songs of the time as viewed through a modern lens, changing them into songs the audience would be familiar with so as to invoke the proper emotional response people of the time would have had (example, using "Smells Like Teen Spirit" for the society men to sing to represent how wild and crazy and decadent the Moulin Rouge was--the actual songs of the time wouldn't have sounded like that to us). It's only a slight jump from this to suggest these "modern songs used to convey an old-time feeling" were also just in the characters' heads.
[[WMG: The events we see are also distorted by Christian's writing]]
Compare Henri de Tolouse-Lautrec singing 'Nature Boy' to him during the rest of it. He's very different. It's possible then that Christian has also exaggerated all the characters in the story to make it more exciting, while keeping the narrative the same.
[[WMG: Nini and the Argentinian had a relationship in the past.]]
During the "Tango de Roxanne", the Argentinian seems genuinely angry about a failed relationship with a courtesan. He sings this song to Nini and tangoes with her, becoming more violent as the tango progresses. When Nini tells the Duke that she doesn't understand why Satine's character in ''Spectacular Spectacular'' would fall for a penniless sitar player over the Maharajah, she is implying that she wanted to be with the Argentinian, but the money in dancing and prostitution was better.
[[WMG: The entire film was in Toulouse's mind while he was locked away in the sanitarium]]
Explains why he knew everything, how the handkerchief plan worked so perfectly, and perhaps lampshaded in his opening song singing alone about all that is happening.
* Satine is the redheaded courtesan he painted so many times.
* Check out that Other Wiki for some brain popping >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_de_Toulouse-Lautrec
[[WMG: Nini Legs-in-the-air's real name is Roxanne.]]
During "El Tango de Roxanne", she seems shocked and a little hurt when the Argentinian calls out "Roxanne". Why? Because it's her real name, which she had only told him. This is his way of slut-shaming her.

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Well written and narrated, the narrative moves at a reasonable pace and helps explain how we got into our current predicament. I finally feel like I understand the driving forces behind something that from our perspective looks like insanity.
"More of a Young Adult Read"
No. The writing is clunky and there is virtually no character development. The world that Sanderson has created doesn't hang together. The characters repeatedly use the same three "curses" over-and-over: "sparks", "calamity" and "slontz". A 12-year-old might like the story, except for the unnecessary violence in the prolog.
No. Sanderson makes Dan Brown look like Shakespeare. He had a good basic idea but couldn't weave a reality together that makes any sense. There is little explanation for how things came to be and why they are. The dialog is pathetic, e.g. "I will dominate you."
He didn't have much to work with and he did a reasonable job with voices.
The idea is very imaginative and somewhat original. He just isn't a very good writer.
I was really thrown off by the high ratings of this audio book, which I have found reliable for the eight years I've subscribed to Audible. Maybe I missed something because this book is not written at an adult level. But I don't see anything about Young Adult category in the listing.
"More Genius from Neil Gaiman"
If you like Neil Gaiman you will like this story. Gaiman finds a way to tell the hero myth story in a new way with fascinating characters every time. You will still be pondering the mysteries of some of these characters long after you've finished the book. And he has the unusual gift of great writing and great narration, with different characters and nothing short of fine acting.
Old Mrs. Hempstock is a fantastic character.
"Fresh and entertaining"
Some fresh ideas, decent character development and a few plot twists. Narrator breathes life into the story with a variety of character voices including some authentic accents.
"Weak story and mediocre narrator"
Parts of the story are a solid continuation of the first 3 books but the plot does not really progress and introduces new characters we don't care about. There are already plenty of reviews written about this book in Amazon so I won't repeat them. See my comments on the narrator.
The fate of Cercei is surprising but I won't spoil it.
The narrator is fairly weak and is particularly challenged with female voices. There are only a few voices he actually uses and fits each character into one of them: the quavering old man, the common man, the highborn man, the highborn woman, the common woman. The women's voices are strangely shrill and unnatural.
The rest of the plot is found in the follow-up book, A Dance With Dragons. So yes, you need to listen/read it to find out what happens to the rest of the characters.
"Good writing but the plot gets silly"
I found the writing and narration compelling, but the plot becomes unnecessarily complicated and silly. The idea and characters are interesting enough on their own without the implausible surprises and "it's crazy but it just might work" second half. That said, I did enjoy listening to it.
"Entertaining bridge"
This installment in the Ender series is fun and an acceptable bridge from the remarkable Speaker for the Dead to the remarkable Children of the Mind. You need to listen to this one on your way to the last book which I found deeply moving in the same way as Speaker for the Dead.
"Last gasp"
The cast of characters in the Bean saga starts to get a little tired in this one. It's entertaining but my least favorite of this series. Card leaves room for another one after this so I hope he takes a fresh approach to it. He's an amazingly talented writer but the ideas in this installment are worn out.
Probably the most emotionally moving science fiction I have read.
"Masterful entertainment - Simon Jones is terrific"
I picked this book up by accident at a friend's house because their 12-year-old was reading it. I loved LOTR but have never been interested in Harry Potter. Couldn't put the book down and when I got home immediately ordered it on Audible. Simon Jones makes it twice as fun with his terrific characters. Buy it!!


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Ladies and Gents: Hello from CA. First post here as I skipped the "Hello" thread. Great website, WONDERFUL people here willing to impart a TON of free info. Been lurking here for 6 months. Thank you, thank you, thank you! Hunting Limpopo & Free State May 2013. First time. Good bud, his wife, and my wife can't wait to arrive. Trip of a lifetime. Background & Question: I have a Rem 700 BDL that started life out as a 7mm Rem. Mag. THAT'S stamped on the barrel. I like wildcats....had it reamed out to chamber a 300 Win Mag. round necked down to 7mm (300WM/7mm). Ammo is custom stuff made from 300 WM brass headstamp. Obviously barrel caliber and ammo headstamp don't match up. So, am I out of luck to bring my "Hammer of Thor" to my first Safari? I appreciate any advise anyone has re: this issue. Thanks a million in advance. Rick T.
Rick, not sure about RSA as when I overnighted there SAPS did not check any ammo on arrival, however I know from other threads that this not always the case. Maybe you need to discuss this with your outfitter. However when we arrived in Zim there they physically checked and counted my rounds, so in your case it would be a problem. Hope this helps.
best for rifle and ammo to match. youre not going till may is there no way you can get some cases stamped with the same as what is on your rifle? this will equal less stress and worry when you arrive wondering if the ammo will be checked. dont know about sa so maybe they dont make a habit of checking, but as richteb said they do in zim, and they look and count when you go to zambia as well, as they charge import duty on the ammo in zambia. P.S. welcome to AH as well.
Welcome to the forum, May be too simple of an answer, but take it to the guy that reamed out the rifle initially, and have him re stamp the barrel 300 wm to match the brass. While he is at it he could stamp "Hammer of Thor" on it as well....
Welcome to the forum, Rick, SAPS never checked my ammo, but, just to be on the safe side, it s better if stamping on barrel and ammo match.
Thank you ALL for your timely suggestions. Much appreciated. Don't think I can restamp the brass, but the bbbl. MIGHT be doable. It is not indexed fully from the OEM stamping, but the Remington 700 RM stamp IS visible on the ride side. I suppose I could get a smith to stamp the left side of the bbl. w/ 300 Win. Mag. Don't think I can get it stamped OVER the OEM stamping and be readable. Don't wann confuse anyone not familiar w/ how ammo is made up from other brass and have to answer a million questions about THAT! I'm not worried about someone trying to actually chamber a 300 Winnie round...but my luck would be, some sharp eyed SAP member would question why there are TWO stampings on the bbl. lol......Don't really know why I'm complaining......guess a new rifle is in order. Sounds like wifey gets some new jewelry and a nice dinner out! Take care folks. Thanks for the great advise and great info resource on African hunting. I've learned a LOT in 6 months here!
The only thing checked when I went to SA was the serial number of the rifle. When crossing into Zimbabwe they counted the rounds but did not look close enough to notice a head stamp. Sooo...
Seen this process done in the past. They simply XXXXout the current chambering and stamp the new one right under the XXXX. Shouldn't be any confusion, then again????
35bore/Ikeda: You'd THINK everything would be hunky dory, huh? I'm the guy who, out of 34 motorcycles in a pack, got pulled out of the line by CHP for a sobriety check. "Why me?", says I. "Why not you? We can only stop one at a time", says they. They could have got ANYONE else and bingoed, but that day I was on the wagon! As sure as the sun rises, if it can go wrong it will when I walk thru the door. Just trying to cover all the bases and not ruin anyones trip...mine or my wife's, but especially my bud and his wife. I HATE being "that guy" who causes all the grief. But, back on track, thanks for the ideas all of you. I'll probably wind up stamping over the OEM stuff. Gotta check w/ PH & GS first. I can't believe I'm the first person to ever try and bring a wildcat cartridge rifle in SA. Even if I stamp the bbl. w/ "300 Win Mag" tho, it's really NOT. I, too worry someone will say "WTH, over. Why the two stamp trick?" They won't pull out calipers and check bullet diameter, I hope! lol
They certainly will not! They will look for bribes or something else. That is why I would have the caliber match the bullets. But I think you understand the problem.
Yeah, I think I got it. "Always something, never nothing" . I'm thinking the 280 Ackley is going to to SA or a new rifle is in order. Almost not worth the hassle nor the uncertainty. Still haven' t heard back from the PH but don't think he will offer anything more than the wealth of knowledge here. It is what it is. Thanks for all the help guys. It IS appreciated!


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China party mouthpiece laments spoiled generation
BEIJING (AFP) - The mouthpiece of China's ruling Communist Party on Monday lamented a generation who had never tasted "hard work" after the son of a general was detained on suspicion of involvement in a gang rape.
Li Guanfeng, the teenage son of general Li Shuangjiang - a popular military singer and household name in the country - was held last Thursday in the latest allegation against privileged children of officials to spark public outrage.
The news has dominated Internet message boards, online news portals and state-run newspapers in China, where crimes by the offspring of the country's elite cause particular anger among ordinary people.
"Family education" among successful, well-known figures in China needs to be "cautious", said the People's Daily, the ruling party's official organ, in an editorial on the case.


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It's not a deli counter where you can order up sandwich fixins willy nilly, but the CEO of Arby's would like to remind customers that you can customize your sandwich — well, to the extent that you can ask for things to not be on it, or for a different kind of bun. [More]
Arby's CEO Would Like To Remind Customers You Can Customize Sandwiches (Sort Of)
Halloween Eats: Free Bacon At Arby's, $3 Burritos At Chipotle
While we're still reeling from the revelation that Arby's may be shorting customers on their fountain drinks, the fast food chain is doing one thing right this week — offering to give away free bacon to customers on Halloween. [More]
Is Arby's Shortchanging Customers On Their Sodas?
There is no set-in-stone standard in the fast food industry for what constitutes a "small," "medium," or "large" drink, so sizes will inevitably vary from eatery to eatery. But if a company sells you a "22 ounce" soft drink, it best come in a container that can hold that amount of fluid. However, this doesn't seem to be the case at Arby's. [More]
Unofficial Calorie Count For Arby's Meat Mountain: There Are Worse Things You Could Eat
For the last few days, the Internet has become more than a little obsessed with the Arby's Meat Mountain, a pile of protein including roast beef, ham, turkey, steak, bacon, brisket, chicken tenders, and various cheeses. While you might initially think that this would be off the calorie charts, an unofficial tally of the nutrition info shows that it's not even in the range of many chain restaurant calorie bombs. [More]
Here Are All The Photos Of Arby's Meat Mountain Sandwiches We've Gotten So Far
We learned something this week, and it's that people like taking photos of their off-menu Arby's Meat Mountains and sending them to us. In the spirit of convenience, we figured we'd put'em all in one place. You know, before this Meat Mountain thing blows over, or erupts or whatever it is mountains do when you're sick of hearing about them and how much meat they have. [More]
This Is What An Arby's "Meat Mountain" Sandwich Looks Like In The Wild
We asked, and we received: After putting out the call for evidence of Arby's new off-menu "Meat Mountain" sandwich, featuring an array of meats stacked like a towering, $10 homage to carnivores everywhere, our obliging readers have provided a few snaps of the sandwich in the wild. [More]
Arby's Is Now Selling A "Meat Mountain" For $10
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Truly Depressing: 400K People Watched Arby's "Brisket Channel" For Average Of 38 Minutes
Perhaps it was to satisfy an atavistic desire, connecting across the eons with our hunter/gatherer forebears by gazing in awe as a slab of animal meat cooks slowly, the fat rendering, collagen melting. Or perhaps we've reached another stage in the mind's evolution, with some next-level humans able to divine meaning and narrative out of watching a brisket cook through the lens of a single fixed TV camera. Please let there be some sane, acceptable explanation why hundreds of thousands of people would tune in to watch an Arby's marketing stunt, and why they would give it more attention than they would the average TV show. [More]
For humans, the 50th anniversary is the golden anniversary. For fast-food restaurants, it's apparently the "give everyone free shakes" anniversary, since that's how Arby's is celebrating its 50th year in business tomorrow. Print out this coupon and head over for a Jamocha (which is just mocha) shake tomorrow, Wednesday, July 23rd, 2014. No other purchase required. [Brand Eating]
Arby's Testing Auntie Anne's-Branded Cheddar Pretzel Nuggets
In the most exciting development in fast-food cross-brand synergy since Taco Bell started serving up tiny Cinnabons, Arby's is testing cheddar-filled Auntie Anne's pretzel nuggets in some of their outlets in the Midwest. As you might expect based on that "cheddar-filled" description, we know that Wisconsin is one test site. [More]
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BSDTalk has a 12 minutes interview with Kris Moore (BSDTalk225) about PC-BSD, recorded at BSDCan 2013. Listen to the podcast as MP3 or OGG.
Previous interviews with Kris Moore can be found here:
BSDTalk has a 12 minutes interview with Kris Moore (BSDTalk225) about PC-BSD, recorded at BSDCan 2013. Listen to the podcast as MP3 or OGG.
Previous interviews with Kris Moore can be found here:
This is an interview with Marshall Kirk McKusick and George Neville-Neil about the FreeBSD Foundation (src).
Download and listen: MP3 | OGG
Will Backman has interviewed Michael Dexter and in this 23 minutes chat they talk about bhyve, a BSD hypervisor.
This is a short chat about FreeBSD on the Raspberry Pi followed by some wise words from Peter Salus at BSDCan2011.
Ivan Voras' wrote a post with his thoughts on FreeBSD's pkgng. Michael W. Luchas thinks there's still room for improvement: FreeBSD Ports Annoyances.
I agree with Michael.
BSD Talk has uploaded an interview with Michael where they talk about his books.
Below some miscelaneous links to FreeBSD related news and updates:
KDE/FreeBSD Bulletin with recent FreeBSD KDE ports related updates.
PC-BSD 20120605 Snapshot now available for testing. There's also a BSD Talk interview (BSDTalk 2016) with Kris Moore, founder of the PC-BSD project, which was recorded during BSDCan 2012. Kris talks about the features going into PC-BSD 9.1.
There are some FreeBSD developers that are trying to get FreeBSD running on the Raspberry Pi, a $25 ARM Linux/GNU box: Porting FreeBSD to the Raspberry Pi.
FreeBSD, a world apart (translatedfrom Spanish with Google Translate) – interesting blog post with some FreeBSDD background information. I like the collection of open source logos.
FreeBSD Foundation prepares launch of East Coast Mirror at NYI (announement)
Simon Phipps is the new OSI President:
Phipps has already been spearheading an OSI reform process, working with the rest of the board to open up the organisation. That process has led to the creation of Open Source Initiative affiliation, bringing the Apache Software Foundation, FreeBSD, Eclipse, Mozilla, Debian, and Creative Commons, along with other organisations, on board as affiliates.
There's another BSDTalk interview available. This time with Deb Goodkin, director of operations for the FreeBSD Foundation.
bsdtalk211 – The FreeBSD Foundation with Deb Goodkin (MP3 | OGG)
The Winter/Spring 2012 Edition of the BSDA Study DVD is now available from the BSD Certification website, as announced here.
The DVD contains:
There's an interesting interview on BSDTalk with Jim Brown from bsdcertification.org. Jim and Will talk about the two available exams and the differences between them.
These are some quick links to upcoming and related FreeBSD related events, conferences and interview.
Central European BSD day: BSDDay EU 2011 (04-06-2011, Slovak University of Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology).
2. EuroBSDCon 2011
Registration for EuroBSDCon 2011 is now open. Subjects and summaries of some of the talks and tutorials are available. Chris Buechler and Ermal Luci will provide a pfSense 2.0 training session
3. BSD Day Argentina 2011
There's a call for papers for the BSD Day Argentina 2011 (4-5 Nov Buenos Aires City):
*BSD users in Argentina call to the community of free software, users, system administrators and developers of BSD systems for participation on the BSDday 2011. The subject of the event is BSD operating systems, BSD-licensed software, licensing issues, BSD philosophy and related topics.
4. BSDTalk 207 ArabBSD
BSDTalk has an interview (BSDTalk 207) with Mohammed Farrag about the ArabBSD project. Slides of the ArabBSD FreeBSD Summer course are available on slideshare.
5. FreeBSD on EC2
Colin Percival discusses FreeBSD on EC2 and tarsnap on FLOSS Weekly 172.
We chat with Colin Percival who has managed to put FreeBSD on EC2 and figured out a good way to have secure backups in the cloud.
There's more he wanted to say in the interview: What I meant to say.
There's a 17 minute interview with Peter Losher from the Internet Software Consortium (ISC) on bsdtalk. Subject of the conversation is the ISC, running DNS root servers, and various other projects.
BSDTalk Interview with Peter Losher (ISC)


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Prosecuting the WombMichele GoodwinUniversity of California, Irvine School of Law August 31, 2010 George Washington Law Review, Vol. 76, No. 101, 2008 REPRINTED IN WOMEN & THE LAW CASEBOOK, West Publishing, 2009 Minnesota Legal Studies Research Paper No. 10-46 Abstract: Policing wombs brings private, intimate spaces into the public theatre, creating spectacles of poor, pregnant women and their children; and this public humiliation functions to visually inscribe these women's place in the social hierarchy. This article contemplates how we might reconsider these negative externalities relative to the public policy interests that fetal drug laws support. The author argues that the reproductive policing efforts of the past twenty years are consistent with a communitarian approach to reproduction. Goodwin sheds light on the inconsistencies of this approach to behavior policing, which tends to disfavor the less sophisticated, less powerful members of society – namely drug-addicted, poor women of color – and yet ignores the risks posed to fetuses by wealthier would-be parents who use sophisticated, expensive reproductive technologies in their attempts to reproduce. The author makes several claims. First, policing reproduction by way of fetal drug laws will likely have a chilling effect on drug dependent women seeking prenatal care. Opportunities for intervention and treatment will likely be significantly diminished as a consequence of tethering prenatal services to fetal inspections. Second, fetal drug laws are an arbitrary means of regulating risks to fetuses because they are under inclusive as they target poor women and ignore the risky high income-bracket pregnancies where prescribed medications are abused as well as pregnancies that rely on assisted reproductive technologies. Fetal drug laws also ignore the behavior of boyfriends and husbands that are detrimental to a developing fetus. Third, these laws establish and perpetuate disturbing medico-legal trends by normalizing and possibly incentivizing breaches in fiduciary obligations. Fourth, fetal drug laws pose economic and efficiency problems related to incarcerating parents. Number of Pages in PDF File: 91 Keywords: law, society, economics, medicine, health care, gender, feminism, women's rights Date posted: September 2, 2010Suggested CitationContact Information
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Fate mapping allows researchers to follow cancer progression from its cell type of origin.
Fate mapping allows researchers to follow cancer progression from its cell type of origin.
A strain of the dysentery-causing bacterium isolated in 1915 tells the story of a young soldier who died of the disease in the early days of World War I.
The guts of cows and termites harbor microbes that are renowned complex-carbohydrate digesters, but the human gastrointestinal tract has flora that just might measure up.
Pathogen traces recovered from Peruvian mummies suggest tuberculosis-causing bacteria rode from Africa to South America in pinnipeds.
Can screening dogs for Trypanosoma cruzi antibodies inform public health officials about the risk of Chagas disease to people?
Meet the peptide-covered microcantilever device capable of differentiating subtypes of Salmonella.
Inspired by turkey skin, researchers devise a bacteriophage-based sensor whose color changes upon binding specific molecules.
A 50,000-generation-long experiment shows that bacteria keep getting fitter.
Formosan subterranean termites evade deadly pathogens by building nests lined with their own feces.
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Stability of Monetary Unions: Lessons from the Break-up of CzechoslovakiaJan FidrmucBrunel University - Department of Economics and Finance; Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR); University of Michigan at Ann Arbor - The William Davidson Institute Julius HorvathCentral European University (CEU) - Department of Economics Jarko FidrmucZeppelin University Friedrichshafen; Charles University in Prague July 1998 CentER Discussion Paper No. 9874 Abstract: In 1993, Czechoslovakia experienced a two-fold break-up: On January 1, the country disintegrated as a political union, while preserving an economic and monetary union. Then, the Czech-Slovak monetary union collapsed on February 8. We analyze the economic background of the two break-ups, and discuss lessons for stability of monetary unions in general. We argue that Czechoslovakia fulfilled some of the optimum currency area criteria; however, given the low correlation of permanent shocks, it appears it was relatively less integrated than some other existing unions. That, along with low labor mobility and higher concentration of heavy and military industries in Slovakia, made Czechoslovak economy vulnerable to asymmetric economic shocks-such as those induced by the economic transition. Furthermore, the Czech-Slovak monetary union was marred by low credibility, lack of political commitment, low exit costs, and the absence of fiscal transfers. Number of Pages in PDF File: 41 JEL Classification: F33, F36, F42 Date posted: March 24, 1999Suggested CitationContact Information
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Today we went to a fort called Fort Smith on the border of Oklahoma and Arkansas. There we learned about the fort and what it was used for. I learned that this fort was originally built to make stop 2 Indian tribes from fighting at a time when the US was trying to move the Indians from the East Coast out west. The President was thinking that if 2 Indian tribes were fighting, then they would never get the Indians to move to the west. The reason why they wanted the Indian tribes to move to the west was because the Europeans wanted to move on the land were the Indians lived. What finally got the Indians to move to the west was that the US Government promised them that if they moved west, they would never take away you land once they got there. The only thing the Indians had to do know was walk or ride there horse to the west, which was 1,000 miles away from there homes. They were doing this walk in the winter so they were really cold and didn't have a lot food. Many people died on that trail so know it is called the "Trail of Tears." Only a few years after the Indians settled in the west, the Europeans started to move west as well in search of gold, so many of the Indians had their home taken away even though the Government said they would not get there home taken away once they moved. When Fort Smith wasn't being used for the Indians anymore, the Government built more houses, and it was used as a supply depot. Once the gold rush was over, the buildings were turned into courtrooms and a jail. When we got to Fort Smith we went in the visitors center and got our Junior Ranger books, and then we went on a short 1 mile hike to see the old buildings. These buildings were not standing, and most of the walls had eroded away. When we were done the hike we went to the RV and got our vests before we went in the visitors center got our Junior Ranger badge. Once we were done, we drove to a campsite that was on the Arkansas River. When we got there we had some dinner and went to bed.
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Today we had a really relaxing day. The first thing that we did was ate breakfast. Next we did some math on IXL. When we were done the IXL I read until I got hungry. When my dad came back from fishing and he got me lunch, which was a bagel with peanut butter and Jelly. Next I did another IXL and that was the last IXL in fourth grade math!!!!! When I was done the IXL we watched an episodes of H2o. Then we had some dinner. For dinner we had Ramen Noodles with eggs, salad, with grapes. Then my Dad and I went out on the kayak for a ride along the Arkansas where he was kayaking earlier. When we got back we took a shower, watched a movie, and then we went to bed.


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Tarigan, Zeplin Jiwa Husada (2009) THE IMPACT OF STRATEGIC PURCHASING TO THE SUPPLIER INVOLVEMENT THROUGH COMMUNICATION, COORDINATION AND COLLABORATION IN SMAAL AND MEDIUM ENTERPRISES. In: International Seminar on Industrial Engineering and Management, December 10th-11th ,2009, Bali - Indonesia.
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In recent times, the theory of purchasing and supply operations has been widely studied under a variety of labels and for a number of reasons. Realizing competitive advantage from organizational alignment and relation to materials supply is for a form of backward integration. In the process, the manufacturing organization obeys demands from distributors; purchasing is in turn re-structured and managed to achieve improved customer value for manufacturing; thereafter, the process addresses the suppliers to the organization (external integration) typically involving supplier rationalization and the introduction of supplier evaluation systems. Based on previous research, there was finding that strategic purchasing has been impact to communication, coordination and collaboration with supplier which is increase supplier involvement. According to a survey 100 respondent which was conducted by means questionnaires and 94 completed questionnaires were returned. Six responses were considered incomplete and had to be discarded, and this left 86 valid responses. This study result are strategic purchasing has a positive significant effect to communication is 0.314; positive significant effect to coordination is 0.336; and positive significant effect collaboration is 0.365. Communication and Collaboration directly will bring significant contribution to supplier involvement, but coordination is not directly. Key words: Strategic purchasing, communication, collaboration, coordination, supplier involvement.
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CYCLISTS who kill or seriously injure pedestrians face up to five years in jail or a $68,000 fine under a safety crackdown by the Victorian Government. From today, there will be tougher penalties for dangerous riding offences and for cyclists who damage property and flee. Previously, cyclists who rode dangerously or carelessly or failed to stop after damaging property faced fines of between $340 and $570. Roads Minister Tim Pallas said the new measures were in response to community concerns. "These new penalties will help police tackle reckless riding by cyclists and reduce the likelihood of pedestrians, other cyclists or drivers suffering serious injury,'' Mr Pallas said. "We're driving home to cyclists the need for them to obey road laws or be punished. "There are now harsher consequences for what are serious offences.'' Mr Pallas said the laws put cyclists on a similar footing to motorists when it came to being charged with serious traffic offences. Other new penalties include a maximum fine of $13,610 and/or 12 months in jail for dangerous riding, and a fine of up to $567 or up to 14 days in jail for damaging property and failing to stop. The measures are part of the Government's goal to lower the road toll by 30 per cent by 2017.
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load of !! BAN ME NOW FOR SWEARING !!. load of !! BAN ME NOW FOR SWEARING !!. !! BAN ME NOW FOR SWEARING !! !! BAN ME NOW FOR SWEARING !! !! BAN ME NOW FOR SWEARING !!. Enforce road rules, by all means. Compel acquiescence as you wish. Do it evenly. A widely reported tragic incident on the Beach ride doesn't equal a spate of such antics, if I'm not mistaken. Mr Pallas should be made accountable for such craven !! BAN ME NOW FOR SWEARING !! statements.
Re: Reckless cyclists face up to five years jailDefinition of the terms reckless cycling, careless cycling and dangerous cycling might help.
But at least mainstream news media is playing a crucial role in puppeting the government AND making me laugh. Do or do not. There is no try
Re: Reckless cyclists face up to five years jailcarry a camera with you...
What about pedestrians? make them just as accountable too...?
Re: Reckless cyclists face up to five years jailI wonder what will happen when the next cyclist dies on Victorian roads.
will "but I was on the phone, doing my makeup and I just didn't see them" be the valid excuse it always seems to be?
Re: Reckless cyclists face up to five years jail
If that's true, presumably we can kill other road users through gross negligence and get away with a slap on the wrist by claiming we didn't see them...
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Snicker Those Victorian cyclists are a tough bunch if they cause 1% of serious injuries to pedestrians and drivers. Mr Pallas must think that since reckless driving has been stamped out it's time to find new targets. Either that or the Vic police have decided pursuit of reckless cyclists is safer than reckless drivers.
Re: Reckless cyclists face up to five years jailWhat's the betting that within the next 18 months to two years Mr Pallas or whatever his name is will start lobbying for rider licences for cyclists?
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Re: Reckless cyclists face up to five years jailtaxes, and a message to cyclists-
oil companies run the government; so get back into the safety of your car. so glad I dont live in victoria, and so sad if other states follow this trend. cycling groups better get their act together soon. so who is going to protest these laws?
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If they're serious about this, how about implementing a proper driver education system? They hand car licences to people who can't drive properly, and then fine them for it! It's a completely absurd situation. In Germany, it takes a year of study and practise to earn your licence. Better than a few lessons and a 15 minute test, isn't it? Anyhow, the first politician who tables the licensing of cyclists will NEVER get my vote.
Re: Reckless cyclists face up to five years jailSurley bike riders which claim equal rights to using road etc should be liable to similar penalties for negligence etc, particuarily when it causes death or damage to property as other road users do.
To me it just seems an alignment as previous penalties are obviously insufficient. Whilst it is a noted case they rider who hit and killed the guy on beach road got away with a slap on the wrist and he was in the wrong running a red light i remember. If a car run a red light and killed a cyclist those who are critisising this announcement would be up in arms if the driver recieved a similar fine.
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Ah, well, there's nothing for us to worry about then, is there? Slaps on the wrists all round. Sounds fair to me. [/cynicism] Think outside the double triangle.
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Fair point - the maximum penalty for negligent driving in NSW is 10 years' jail. At the end of the day, magistrates are highly unlikely to hand out the maximum penalty to anyone not thoroughly deserving it. Tim Pallas's comments are what makes the whole thing seem a little absurd... Cyclists are typically the ones 'severely injured' by drivers, not the other way around, yet they often get away with it. Fair enough to introduce new laws to make everyone accountable for their actions, but stating that this is part of a campaign to reduce the road toll by 30% is just bizarre - two pedestrians were killed by cyclists in the past decade - unless it's a subversive move aimed at persecuting cyclists until they abandon the road altogether and aren't available to be killed by motorists...
Re: Reckless cyclists face up to five years jailTwo dead peds in a decade? Oh my God it's veloanarchy out there!
Gotta slap them naughty cyclists while a truck driver runs a red light, kills eleven, injures many more and traumatises three of my colleagues to the point that two of them are unlikely to ever work in the industry again and gets off scott free. Perspective? Not in this Govt. I WILL NOT vote for this lot at the next election. Populist media driven w4nkers! Shaun ...whatever the road rules, self-preservation is the absolute priority for a cyclist when mixing it with motorised traffic.
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Re: Reckless cyclists face up to five years jailA lot of cyclists, including on these boards, having been calling for a "Vulnerable Road Users" law.
Well they seem to have introduced something but it only applies to walkers!?! This should have been implemented as a complete solution, giving riders additional protections. As it stands, its very tough on us, with no benefits. Fail.
Re: Reckless cyclists face up to five years jailMaybe they misunderstood, hence the tough new laws cracking down on freeloading vulnerable road users...
Re: Reckless cyclists face up to five years jailI'm in serious doo doo ... I'm likely to hit a bus, run it off the road severely injuring all passengers ... then flee ...
Re: Reckless cyclists face up to five years jailI saw this story just before this thread was started, and decided to have a long think about it before posting.
IMHO, it just puts cyclists in the same category as motor vehicles. It puts meaningful fines on the kind of bad behaviour that we wouldn't accept by car drivers, and we shouldn't accept by other cyclists. The sad part is that these laws are aimed at the minority of cyclists who think that the rules don't apply to them, and a few of them are going to get made an example of so that all cyclists get the message that riding at speed through red lights and crowds of pedestrians is not acceptable. Mind you, they could have tried enforcing the existing laws before deciding to increase the fines.... but I guess it's cheaper to increase fines than increase police presence. And I'm sure the pedestrians bitch about us cyclists as much as we bitch about the car drivers. Edit: anti-pedant change. Last edited by twizzle on Fri Jun 19, 2009 9:46 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: Reckless cyclists face up to five years jailSo when I'm riding down Swanston St at a perfectly legal 30 kmh and a pedestrian steps straight out in front of me........
Who cops the dangerous cycling fine??? Riding bikes in traffic - what seems dangerous is usually safe; what seems safe is often more dangerous.
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Well put. Cyclists are so often wanting to be treated as equal road users. This is part of that. It's the same as the speeding fine v revenue raising argument - if you dont break the law you have nothing to worry about (I on the other hand, have made the odd donation to the governments coffers ). The laws havent changed, just the penalty for breaking it. HTFU I reckon.... In saying that, I still think Tim Pallas is a knob, but I already thought that.
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was having this exact conversation just the other day, sparked by a news article about woman complaining that she doesnt have time to give her kids 100 hours (or whatever it is) "instruction". plenty of countries have compulsory driver training. why dont we?!?!?
Re: Reckless cyclists face up to five years jail
Ok I am confused... The Government has recognized cycling as an important means of transport... So does that mean cycling will get an important means of funding, just like the other road users?
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Bicycles are vehicles. This makes us a scapegoat for failed transportation policy. We feel this scapegoating every time auto drivers abuse us.
We have as much right to use the road as anyone else, and do not break laws any more often, than other users. Unfortunately, other users often abuse us. Why isn't this clear to either of you?
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Google has decided to redirect their Google.kz domain to their global homepage Google.com, in response to a Kazakhstan law enacted last month requiring all .kz domain websites to be hosted on servers within their country.
Google has announced that it will no longer serve customized search results to Kazakhstan, instead redirecting them to global results. The company won't relocate, as it raises too many questions about network efficiency, user privacy, and freedom of expression - and would create a "fractured internet," according to Google.
What does this mean to Kazakhstan web site owners? Well, as opposed to the location influenced search results potential visitors were seeing prior to the redirect, their websites now compete with the world. Companies that were making a living from their good positions in Google.kz results now face a hard slog. Though Google could use IP information to filter results in the global listings, it isn't likely.
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hey egy! i hv a ques! look my bro has a laptop provided by his company. the company has organized the lappie in such a way that he can only open a guest acc. with almost no rights! not even software installing :( there is A Admin acc. in that pc but it can only be opened by company! So what should i do??
- April 28, 2012 at 3:18 AM
- egyhacks said...
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Seems like your bro has an account on his company's "Cloud Computing Network" and this is different issue to hack into cloud computing, you can't get into cloud computing by this hack. We will write a tutorial on it very soon. - April 28, 2012 at 4:40 AM
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- Muhamad Syahmi bin Zulkfli Zulkfli said...
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- May 11, 2012 at 10:52 PM
- egyhacks said...
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This will only bypass your password. - May 12, 2012 at 3:41 AM
- Fer said...
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- egyhacks said...
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Link updated. - August 5, 2012 at 12:23 AM
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Again and again Ned Weeks implores his heterosexual brother Ben (Bob Hess), a wealthy attorney, to use his money and connections for the cause. Ben refuses and rejects Ned's requests to be treated as an equal rather than a head case (there's stuff early in the play about Ned being forced by Ben into psychiatric treatment to "cure" his homosexuality).
The love interest is handsome Felix (Mark Shum), who's conflicted about coming out and, even worse, works as a reporter at the Times. His and Ned's romance is an unlikely one, but Uptown's actors save what on the page is a pretty soppy soap-opera scenario. We know Felix will fall ill--how else will Ned Weeks justify his commitment to the campaign?--but when he does, it's a surprise how delicately it's handled by Uptown's Taylor and Shum. There is real passion in their final scenes together. But there is also the same sort of sweet, wrenching sadness of the "let go" scene in the film Longtime Companion.
The Normal Heart is a play loaded with dramatic landmines. Kramer makes Ned Weeks (his alter ego) into a bristling cipher who speaks long stretches of facts and figures. Every character is awarded a too-long soliloquy--or two. And scenes seem to come to multiple denouements. There are also a lot of spurious "facts" and conspiracy theories put forth, including the assertion that AIDS could have come from government experiments meant to eradicate gay men altogether.
Kramer hasn't moved away from radical ideas. In a speech in 2004, he told a standing room-only crowd at Manhattan's Cooper Union that gays still were ignorant about and indifferent to their own demise and that a country filled with homophobes was happy to see them self-destruct. "I do not see us, don't you see? They are killing us," said Kramer. "They are eradicating us from this earth. Little by little by little we are disappearing. I do not see us, and I am beginning to see us less and less."
How prescient that The Normal Heart ends with two gay men repeating marriage vows to each other just before one of them dies. The relevance of this play lies right there in a reminder that, in so many ways, it's still 1985.


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Health Technologies and Evidence
Change is an ongoing feature within the health and social care sectors - new services are introduced, existing services are modified. Therefore it is necessary to ensure that services continue to be developed and delivered appropriately, based on the best available evidence and making use of the wide range of technologies available.
Members of the Health Technologies and Evidence research programme are recognised experts in informatics, information retrieval and evidence based practice. Work within the programme supports the eHealth agenda and seeks to generate creative processes for identifying, representing, indexing and accessing evidence to ensure that evidence and evidence-based practice remains responsive to the dynamic nature of modern health and social care and the needs of users.
Health Technologies and Evidence supports the need for evidence to inform health and social care policy and practice for example by:
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Policies and Procedures for the Resale of MPDUs
- Resale of an MPDU during the control period
- Resale after the applicable control period has expired for MPDUs that were first purchased BEFORE March 20, 1989
- Resale after the applicable control period has expired for MPDUs that were first purchased AFTER March 20, 1989
Resale of an MPDU during the control period
The owner of an MPDU who wishes to sell the MPDU during the applicable control period must either sell the unit to the County, or to another MPDU certificate holder.
To resell your MPDU, first contact the MPDU Office to get the resale price for the unit (as explained below). Once the resale price has been determined, the County will decide whether or not it wishes to exercise its right-of-first-refusal to purchase the MPDU (as permitted under the MPDU law). If the County decides to purchase your MPDU, a representative of the County will discuss with you the sales process. If the County decides not to purchase your unit, it must be resold to another MPDU certificate holder. This process is explained below.
Establishing the MPDU Resale Price The resale pricing policy for each MPDU being offered for sale during the applicable control period is described below; this policy applies regardless of when the unit was initially offered for sale by the builder.
The resale price is determined by the initial acquisition price, plus an allowance for the increase in inflation from the date of the initial settlement on the unit through the date of the resale price determination. The owner also receives credit for allowable improvements. No credit will be given for permanent financing costs (loan discount points), buy downs, or improvements not included in the list of compensable improvements dated March 20, 1989. The increase permitted for inflation is based upon the Consumer Price Index for the Washington Metropolitan area (CPI-U).
The following is an example of the resale price calculation for a unit sold within the ten-year MPDU price and occupancy control period. This example assumes the unit was initially sold in 1998:
Initial Acquisition Price in 1998 | $100,000 |
Increase in the CPI (15% increase since 1998) | $15,000 |
Documented Capital Improvements | $3,000 |
Real Estate Commission* | $0 |
Base Resale Price | $118,000 |
Closing Cost Allowance: (3.5% of Base) | $4,130 |
Maximum Resale Price | $122,130 |
*see conditions below
Selling to Another MPDU Certificate Holder Using a Real Estate Agent If the the County does not purhcase your MPDU, you must sell it to another MPDU certificate holder. You may use a licensed real estate agent to help with this process. However, the owner must obtain written permission from DHCA prior to signing a listing agreement with a real estate agent, in order to include this expense in the resale pricing.
The real estate agent must contact the MPDU Office to receive instructions on how to market and sell the MPDU. The real estate agent must market the MPDU only to persons who are on a priority marketingt list established by the MPDU Office. If there are no interested certificate holders after all the persons on the marketing list have been contacted, then the you can request, in writing, permission to sell your MPDU to persons who do not participate in the MPDU program. Please be aware, however, that a unit sold to non-participants remains an MPDU and all the rules governing the MPDU program remain in effect.
Resale after the applicable control period has expired for MPDUs that were first purchased BEFORE March 20, 1989
If an MPDU was initially offered by the builder through the MPDU Program before March 20, 1989, the owner may sell the unit on the open market after the applicable control period has expired, without restriction on the resale price and with the entire profit going to the seller.
Resale after the applicable control period has expired for MPDUs that were first purchased AFTER March 20, 1989
For MPDUs that were initially offered by the builder through the MPDU program after March 20, 1989, the owner may sell the unit on the open market for a fair market price once the applicable control period has expired. However, the owner must pay one-half of the excess profit into Montgomery County's Housing Initiative Fund (HIF) in order to provide affordable housing units in the future. The County also has the right-of-first-refusal to match the proposed fair market sales price.
The following example shows how the County's portion of the excess profit is calculated. The example assumes an initial purchase price of $80,000 in 1995, and a current market sales price of $250,000:
Initial Acquisition Price in 1995 | $80,000 |
Increase in CPI (25% increase between 1995 and 2005) | $20,000 |
Documented Capital Improvements | $5,000 |
Real Estate Commission (6% of sales price) | $15,000 |
½ of Transfer Tax & Recording Fee (1.1% of sales price) | $2,750 |
Adjusted Base | $122,750 |
Fair Market Sales Price (as shown on sales contract) | $250,000 |
Less: Adjusted Base (from above) | $122,750 |
Excess Profit (the Difference Between Adjusted Base and the Fair Market Sales Price) | $127,250 |
Share of Excess Profit to Owner (50%) | $63,625 |
Share of Excess Profit to County (50%) | $63,625 |
Total Proceeds to Seller | $186,375 |
Total Shared Profit to County | $63,625 |
In order to calculate the shared profit that will be due to the County upon sale of the MPDU, the owner must provide the County with a signed copy of the sales contract as soon as possible after it is signed. In order to receive credit for eligible improvements, the owner must also submit a list of improvements, showing the cost of each item, as well as documentation of the cost (such as receipts or cancelled checks). Finally, the owner must provide the name, contact information, phone and fax number for the settlement attorney.


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Ford has a special offer for fans going to the Kentucky Speedway.
Any Ford driver going to the Kentucky Speedway race on June 29 can park in a special Ford parking lot.
Fans that go to the race and drive their Ford will get to park in a premium lot.
"The Ford dealers are really excited about this race and, if you drive in, in a Ford, any kind of Ford, we have five lots right there next to the track, easy in, easy out. It's the Ford dealers way of saying thanks customers for all your business," Ford dealer Bob Ring said.
The parking lots are limited to only fans that drive Fords.


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Released: Apr 01st, 1986
Running Time: 84
Director: Various
Company: Video Classics Phase II
Aurora (I), Desiree Lane, Seka, Stephanie Taylor, Lauri Smith, Tish Ambrose
Critical Rating: AA 1/2
Genre: All-Sex
There hasn't been a good all-lesbian tape in a while, so this collection of outtakes from Essex films will serve girl-girl sex fans with a plateful of sexy stuff.
As with most compilation tapes, some scenes work, while others fail to arouse. The highlights include Aurora and Tish Ambrose doing each other under the table in one segment; a stylized, sizzling three-way with Desiree Lane, Laurie Smith, Stephanie Taylor and some anal dildos titled "Three of a Kind" and "My December Romance" with Sylvia Rodgers and Phaedra Grant. Other famous female sex stars, including Seka and Crystal Breeze are featured, as well.
The film quality varies with each segment, and there's a few scenes you may want to scan past. But Girls, girls, girls! is a recommended featurette tape for collectors of all-girl stuff.


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People enjoy the muddy thrills and spills on a waterslide dug into a hillside in Waimauku on Feb. 23, 2013 in Auckland, New Zealand.Â
Only 2000 people will have the honor of riding the water slides, with one measuring 650 meters long built by New Zealanders Jimi Hunt and Dan Drupstee, of the "Live more Awesome" charity this weekend.
The world's longest slide will be open for only two days to raise funds and awareness of depression.
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This upper abdominal MRI scan shows multiple tumors in the liver which have spread (metastasized) from a malignant melanoma in an arm or leg. Note the light circular areas throughout the liver (seen mostly on the left side of the screen).
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Let's say you run a UX team. Better yet, let's say you don't. Let's say you just want to do great work. You're a consultant. You're a newbie. You're an intern. Your position is irrelevant. So is your title. What's important here is that you want great UX to happen. You want it consistently. You want it now. You want it all the time.
No matter your status or situation, whether director or loner, you are in a position to lead, to raise the bar in a place where it consistently sits lower than you think it should.
Read more...It's no secret that the digital industry is booming. From exciting startups to global brands, companies are reaching out to digital agencies, responding to the new possibilities available. However, the industry is fast becoming overcrowded, heaving with agencies offering similar services — on the surface, at least.
Producing creative, fresh projects is the key to standing out. Unique side projects are the best place to innovate, but balancing commercially and creatively lucrative work is tricky. So, this article looks at how to make side projects work and why they're worthwhile, drawing on lessons learned from our development of the UX Companion app.
Read more...It's been three years since I launched my productized service. And, boy, did I do a lot of things wrong! But I'm glad I did. If it weren't for the many mistakes I've learned from and lessons I've applied, my business never would have grown to replace my income as a freelancer.
As it turns out, I wasn't alone in my mission to move away from client work and into a products business. Every day when I read the replies I get from freelancers who read my newsletter, most tell me they want to do the same but that making the transition seems almost impossible.
Read more...We have all known the pain of a client interfering in the design process. Phrases like "Make the logo bigger" and "Put that above the fold" have become a running joke in the web design community.
It is not unusual for web designers to lose money on a project as a result of the client endlessly iterating on the design. After a few bad experiences, we start to exclude the client from the process. We limit their number of iterations and avoid consulting with them.
Read more...Should designers be able to code? This topic never seems to die, with its endless blog posts, Twitter discussions and conference talks. But the developer's involvement in the design process seems to be addressed very little. This is a shame, because developers have a huge amount to add to discussions about design.
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Read more...There comes a time in nearly everyone's career when changing jobs is the natural next step. As a designer, you might start looking for a new job when you feel you have hit a wall with your current employer or when greater opportunities are present at other companies.
After taking the necessary steps to prepare for a job search, like updating your resume and nurturing a small savings account to provide a little cushion, think about what you want in your next job. Planning for job requirements, salary and perhaps location before applying is obvious, but many people forget to set criteria for one major thing: corporate culture.
Read more...As mobile designers, we have a stark decision to make: do we spend time learning new tools and changing our design processes to create our own transitional interfaces, or are the tools that we've been using good enough? There's an old writing adage that advises writers, whenever possible, to "show, don't tell" when bringing characters to life. The goal is to reveal the story through the character's experiences instead of the author's.
When designing mobile products, we share a similar burden. Dammed up inside our heads are creative waterfalls of fresh interactions, transitions, and animations. But how are we supposed to communicate them to our teams, our developers? How do we get them out of our heads? Through a game of charades?
I'm guilty of that last one.
Read more...What is a product manager? What do product managers do all day? Most importantly, why do companies need to hire them? Good questions. Well, the first confusion we have to clear up is what we mean by "product."
In the context of software development, a product is the website, application or online service that users interact with. Depending on the size of the company and its products, a product manager could be responsible for an entire system (such as a mobile app) or part of a system (such as the checkout flow on an e-commerce website across all devices).
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Duke Realty to Build Major Industrial Park in Baltimore Area
Jan. 27--Industrial developer Duke Realty Corp. has purchased General Motors' shuttered Baltimore van assembly plant and plans a $150 million project to demolish the 70-year-old factory and make way for an industrial park.
Duke, an Indianapolis-based developer of industrial, office, retail and health care projects, disclosed it had bought a 184-acre Baltimore site in a press release about mid-Atlantic acquisitions but did not identify it as the GM property. The statement, which focused on properties in Virginia, said only that the land could accommodate about 2.8 million square feet of new bulk warehouse development to serve port-related business.
A Duke spokesman confirmed that the site was the GM plant, but declined to elaborate on the company's plans.
"We did buy GM' s assembly plant on Broening Highway," said Tom Wiser, a spokesman for Duke, who said the sale closed Wednesday. "We own the site, and will be developing it."
A GM official also confirmed the sale to Duke, but declined to talk about the developer's proposal or how GM made its selection.
"We're very excited about having Duke on board, and we know they'll do a great job," said John K. Blanchard, executive director for GM Worldwide Real Estate.
He said GM and Duke officials expect to release details during a press conference with Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. and Baltimore Mayor Martin O'Malley planned for Feb. 3 at the plant.
State economic development officials, who appeared caught by surprise by the Duke press release, did not respond to requests for further comment. City officials did not return phone calls.
James P. Lighthizer, a principal with Chesapeake Real Estate Group and the local broker for GM, estimated the redevelopment costs for Duke at about $150 million, including land acquisition, factory demolition, environmental cleanup and construction of warehouse and distribution space.
"We found a lot of port-related users interested in acquiring both warehouse space and land for outside storage and parking at the GM property," Lighthizer said. He said port customers have shown interest in leasing space as well as in buying land on which to build their own facilities, he said.
The Sun reported in September that GM had narrowed its selection of a buyer to Duke and two other finalists. In its request for development proposals, the automaker had not specified uses for the site. But the request discouraged development of housing in such a highly industrialized area, next to Seagirt Marine Terminal on the city's eastern fringe.
At the time Maryland officials said preliminary plans from the finalists meshed with the state's vision for an industrial-office business park that could bring in 3,000 to 5,000 jobs.
Aris Melissaratos, Maryland's secretary of business and economic development, said then that he expected a new owner to demolish the 70-year-old, 3.2 million square foot GM auto plant, which closed in May, and redevelop the site, most likely with about 2 million square feet of offices and distribution and manufacturing buildings.
Melissaratos said that in addition to distribution or manufacturing buildings, redevelopment would probably include about five midrise office buildings on what is now a parking lot along Holabird Avenue and Broening Highway. He said the offices could become the base for port-related management currently housed in the Inner Harbor's World Trade Center, which the state plans to sell, as well as a new headquarters for the Maryland Transportation Authority.
Duke did not mention office construction in its announcement yesterday.
The market will determine whether other uses are considered, Lighthizer said.
"The market will determine that ultimate build-out," he said. "If someone had an office or flex requirement, one would think they would try to accommodate that.
Other industry experts said they expect to see strong demand from warehouse and distribution businesses because of a shortage of industrial land close to the I-95 corridor. The GM site should also be attractive because of its accessibility to the Port of Baltimore, real estate experts said.
"It's a terrific redevelopment opportunity," said John Blumer, a managing director commercial real estate firm CB Richard Ellis in Baltimore. "Everyone in distribution up and down the East Coast wants to jump on I-95, but the I-95 distribution corridor is just running out of land."
In some cases, Blumer said, distribution businesses that serve the Baltimore region are being forced to look for space as far away as West Virginia.
"Being close to the port is just huge," Blumer said. "We think there will be a terrific demand for distribution product in that location."
F. Brooks Royster III, executive director of the Maryland Port Administration, said yesterday he was not aware of Duke Realty's plans for the GM site. Port users, such as importers or exporters, have a great need for distribution centers that move goods through the port of Baltimore, he said.
"We're anxious to see it developed with a maritime aspect," he said. "We hope to see commercial development there that would augment the port."
Duke, founded in 1972, is the largest publicly traded office and industrial property owner in the country. The GM plant acquisition fits into Duke's strategy of expanding into new markets, Denny Oklak, Duke's chairman and chief executive, said in yesterday's announcement.
"The Baltimore transaction will allow us to further expand our plan to capitalize on the growth of port and intermodal distribution activity," he said in the release.
The company owns more than 115 million square feet in a dozen markets, mostly in the Midwest and Southeast. Retail development makes up a small part of the company's business, along with a growing pipeline of health care development. The company's in-house construction company builds all Duke-owned buildings as well as projects for customers thoughout the country.
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JOHANNESBURG — Zinedine Zidane is disappointed by France's on-field performances at the World Cup and doesn't agree with the team's actions off it.
But the hero of the 1998 championship team believes the former champions can win their last Group A game against South Africa.
Zidane said France's players should have trained Sunday instead of boycotting practice in protest of Nicolas Anelka being thrown off the squad.
While Zidane labels France's situation "sad," he does believe a victory Tuesday will help it get past its current predicament.
"This team has the possibility to get over this obstacle with this match. Everything can change for them," Zidane said Monday, adding France remains in contention for the title. "I hope they can still get out of this group. There is hope even if everything that has been said to now is the opposite."
France and South Africa have one point each from two matches, and will not progress if Mexico and Uruguay, both at four points, draw in their last Group A match.
Zidane said he could see a positive in defeat: it could shake the team clean of its problems with a coaching change imminent.
"If they lose there's a new coach in Laurent Blanc who will change all of this," Zidane said. "I don't think you can blame one player or another, but Laurent Blanc's arrival will change everything that is happening within the team."
The public rifts between France players, coaches and national officials over Anelka, who was thrown off the squad for insulting coach Raymond Domenech, should never have happened, according to Zidane. France team director Jean-Louis Valentin also resigned from the French Football Federation amid the chaos.
"Nobody agrees with what (Anelka) said or did. What I can't defend is the fact that it came out," Zidane said. "In a locker room a lot of things are said, but they should never come out."
Zidane also denied reports he advised France before its 2-0 defeat against Mexico.
"To think that I could call the players and tell them how to play – I mean, you have to be kidding me," Zidane said before explaining his relationship with Domenech. "I never had a problem with this coach, but I never had a good feeling for him. But I respected him in his position as coach. I was on the ship, I was captain of the team (in 2006)."
While Zidane, who said he had no plans to go into coaching anytime soon, laughed about having scheduled his news conference some time ago expecting an easy day. Instead, his former teammates' problems became the only talking point.
"Yes, I'm sad like a lot of people who support this team. Yes, I'm sad because we talk about everything but football," Zidane said. "We're all disappointed, me firstly, because I wore this jersey for a long time and the nicest thing I could have was to wear it."
Former South Africa player Lucas Radebe, who spoke at the event alongside Zidane, hoped South Africa could capitalize on France's problems while avoiding its own implosion.
"You know how important this next match is, so I hope there are no problems – we can't copy France outside the field of play," said Radebe, who played against Zidane at the '98 tournament. "We know France has problems but that's not our problem. We have to focus our team. Possibly that can be an advantage for us."